Juma Namangani

Juma Khan Namangani (1969-10 November 2001), born Jumma Kasimov and also known as Juma Ahmadzhanovich Khojavev, was the founder of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and an ally of the Taliban. He died in the Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif during the Afghanistan War.

Biography
Jumma Kasimov was born in the Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union in 1969 to a Muslim Uzbek family. Kasimov was conscripted into the Soviet Army in 1987 and fought in an elite paratrooper force during the Soviet-Afghan War. In 1991, Namangani founded the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and carried out terrorism in China and Central Asia. The Taliban let him operate freely in northern Afghanistan because of their shared Islamic views.

Kasimov took part in the defense of Afghanistan from the ISAF army that invaded in 2001. He died fighting US Army and Northern Alliance troops in November in the Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif.